Cartesian anxiety

Cartesian anxiety is a philosophical concept for the conflict that a subject experiences of failing to have—in reality—either a fixed and stable foundation for knowledge of what is and is not real, or an inescapable and incomprehensible groundlessness of reality.^[1] Richard J. Bernstein coined and used the term in his 1983 book Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis, referring to the feelings expressed by René Descartes, its namesake, in his Meditations on First Philosophy.

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^ Varela, Francisco J. (2016). The embodied mind : cognitive science and human experience. Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch (Revised ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-0-262-33549-2. OCLC 968243704.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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[1] Varela, Francisco J. (2016). The embodied mind : cognitive science and human experience. Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch (Revised ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-0-262-33549-2. OCLC 968243704.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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